AESOP's Thematic Groups – Part 3: The Sustainable Food Planning Thematic Group

Valk, A.J.J. van der; Viljoen, André

doi:10.1080/02513625.2014.1007647

Cited by 4 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 5 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Similarly, whilst there is a newly burgeoning literature on global food systems, the contextual role of the urbanization process is rarely addressed. " Smith, 1998: 207 Despite Smith's call to arms nearly 25 years ago, analysis of how urban systems and the food system intersect have not been the primary focus of urban research in the global South (Hunter-Adams et al 2019;van der Valk & Viljoen 2014;Donovan et al 2011). Food and the wider externalities produced by the food system remain largely the focus of rural and agrarian studies in Southern contexts.…”

Section: Understanding City Systems Through the Lens Of Food And Unde...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Bringing together urban systems and food systems theory and research is overdue: understanding the relationships between food and nutrition infrastructures along a continuum of contested and hybrid access

Battersby,

Brown-Luthango,

Fuseini

et al. 2023

Agric Hum Values

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Urban dwellers’ food and nutritional wellbeing are both dependent on infrastructure and can be indicative of wider wellbeing in urban contexts and societal health. This paper focuses on the multiple relationships that exist between food and infrastructure to provide a thorough theoretical and empirical grounding to urgent work on urban food security and nutrition in the context of rapid urban and nutrition transitions in the South. We argue that urban systems and food systems thinking have not been well aligned, but that such alignment is not only timely and overdue but also fruitful for both thematic areas of research and policy. We draw in particular on work within wider urban political economy and political ecology that can be classified as part of the ‘infrastructural turn’ that is influential with urban studies but little acknowledged within food studies. Drawing on these literatures helps us to better understand the interrelationships between people, things and ideas that make up both infrastructure and food systems. Policy, planning and research relating to both food and urban systems cannot afford to ignore such interlinkages, though much policy still operates on the neat assumptions of progressive connectivity to ‘the grid’ and formal food retail. Instead we argue how in many urban governance systems, a variety of hybrid mechanisms—on and off the grid, public and private formal and informal—better represent how urban residents, particularly the most marginalised, meet their everyday food and infrastructural needs along a continuum of gridded and off-grid access.

show abstract

Section: Understanding City Systems Through the Lens Of Food And Unde...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Bringing together urban systems and food systems theory and research is overdue: understanding the relationships between food and nutrition infrastructures along a continuum of contested and hybrid access

Battersby,

Brown-Luthango,

Fuseini

et al. 2023

Agric Hum Values

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Over the past few years, there has been a transition towards thinking about food in its totality, moving towards an understanding of food as a complex system with multiple interlinking parts and feedback loops, connecting the food supply chain, the food environment and individual behaviour (Berkum, Dengerink, & Ruben 2018;HLPE 2017). In this food system approach, there has been a movement away from linear conceptualisations of agricultural value chains bringing food from farm to fork, to thinking in terms of processes and…”

Section: Food As a Lens On Southern Cities -From Rural Bias And Ignor...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Living Off-Grid Food and Infrastructure Collaboration Working Paper 1: Concepts and Assumptions

Battersby,

Brown-Luthango,

Fuseini

et al. 2023

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This working paper is the product of the Living Off-Grid Food and Infrastructure Collaboration. It is designed to bring together our thinking on how infrastructure can shape the food and nutritional security of urban marginalised populations. Infrastructure assemblages include the material (physical and technological), as well as the political and systemic factors that ‘govern’ how infrastructure is developed and used. Urban food systems are made up of public and private actors, and market and governance processes that shape the cost and availability of food in different urban contexts. At the intersection of urban food systems and infrastructure assemblages lies the food and nutrition security of urban dwellers. The framing of contemporary debates and policy priorities with respect to both nutrition and infrastructure are heavily conditioned by presumptions – in favour of formality and griddedness, for example, or of the need to raise agricultural productivity – which fail to reflect the reality of marginalised communities in Southern cities. For these communities, their experience is one of hybridity, with formal and informal infrastructures and economies central to their lives and livelihoods. These hybrid arrangements are imbued with power structures and socio-political dynamics that are context specific and further condition communities’ experiences. Together, these are the factors that condition or shape the possibilities for individuals and households pursuing different food strategies. However, there is a failure to reflect this reality in the conceptualisation of infrastructure challenges, leading to unworkable solutions and policies that end up perpetuating problems. There is an urgent need to reframe problematic assumptions, starting first and foremost from the entry point of urban informal settlements in the global South. By taking food as a lens in this process, we illuminate these contexts, and how they relate to hybrid infrastructure arrangements and potential alternatives. This reformulation is vital at this critical juncture, when Southern cities need infrastructure development that meets the needs of rapidly changing demographics without locking cities and nations into unsustainable pathways.

show abstract

“…Il fait suite au colloque international sur les innovations dans les systèmes alimentaires des villes qui s'est tenu à Montpellier, à Agropolis International, les 28 et 29 octobre 2013. Ce colloque s'inscrivait dans le cadre du groupe de recherche Sustainable Food Planning (SFP) d'AESOP (Association of European Schools of Planning), qui réunit chaque année depuis 2009 une audience croissante (Van der Valk et Viljoen, 2014). Les 170 participants 1 du colloque montrent la consolidation d'une communauté de recherche internationale de géographes, politistes, urbanistes et paysagistes, s'intéressant À sous l'angle spécifique de l'aménagement régional et urbain (urban and regional planning) À à l'alimentation des villes, en particulier à l'agriculture urbaine, à l'approvisionnement alimentaire, aux systèmes alimentaires alternatifs (alternative food networks), et aux mouvements citoyens liés (Viljoen et Wiskerke, 2012).…”

unclassified

Dossier « L’agriculture dans le système alimentaire urbain : continuités et innovations » – Introduction. L’agriculture dans le système alimentaire urbain : continuités et innovations

Perrin¹,

Soulard²

2017

Nat. Sci. Soc.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

L'alimentation des villes est aujourd'hui un front de recherche à la croisée des sciences sociales, techniques et agronomiques. Ce thème invite à dépasser les frontières habituelles entre politiques publiques sectorielles (agriculture, urbanisme, environnement) et entre disciplines scientifiques (Steel, 2009). L'alimentation peut en effet être un levier pour améliorer la durabilité des villes, en lien avec des enjeux de nutrition-santé, d'éducation, de développement économique, d'environnement et de cohésion sociale. Et réciproquement, les villes s'affirment progressivement comme des acteurs moteurs du changement et elles apparaissent comme des échelles pertinentes pour améliorer la durabilité de l'alimentation. Les questions alimentaires commencent à être prises en considération dans les politiques urbaines, notamment à travers les questions d'aménagement (Morgan, 2009 ; 2013). Dans les pays anglo-saxons, les enjeux alimentaires sont entrés depuis une quinzaine d'années dans les conceptions de la durabilité urbaine et dans les politiques d'aménagement, notamment au Royaume-Uni, aux États-Unis ou au Canada, qui disposent à la fois d'une communauté de recherche très structurée sur ce thème et d'expérimentations dans différentes villes (Blay-Palmer, 2010 ; Plantinga et Derkzen, 2012 ; Stierand, 2012). L'alimentation n'est plus un ovni dans les politiques d'aménagement urbain (Pothukuchi et Kaufman, 2000). En France, le regain d'intérêt des villes pour l'agriculture date des années 1990, mais l'intérêt pour l'alimentation est beaucoup plus récent (Brand et Bonnefoy, 2011 ;

show abstract

AESOP's Thematic Groups – Part 3: The Sustainable Food Planning Thematic Group

Cited by 4 publications

References 5 publications

Bringing together urban systems and food systems theory and research is overdue: understanding the relationships between food and nutrition infrastructures along a continuum of contested and hybrid access

Bringing together urban systems and food systems theory and research is overdue: understanding the relationships between food and nutrition infrastructures along a continuum of contested and hybrid access

Living Off-Grid Food and Infrastructure Collaboration Working Paper 1: Concepts and Assumptions

Dossier « L’agriculture dans le système alimentaire urbain : continuités et innovations » – Introduction. L’agriculture dans le système alimentaire urbain : continuités et innovations

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About